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Old 11-05-2007   #1 (permalink)
James
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RAW format disk

My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my
notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which separate
two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect by USB.
Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was dead and then
I found I could see the device but it didn't have any data. I saw the format
was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my important data?

Old 11-06-2007   #2 (permalink)
jrb1164
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Re: RAW format disk

If it says your drive is RAW, then it needs to be Formatted!!
I don't know know how you partioned the drive. BUT it Must be REFORMATTED
if it reads RAW.
Hope this will help you.


James" <sulliveno@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my
> notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which
> separate two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect by
> USB. Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was dead
> and then I found I could see the device but it didn't have any data. I saw
> the format was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my important
> data?

Old 11-06-2007   #3 (permalink)
Malke
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Re: RAW format disk

James wrote:
Quote:

> My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my
> notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which
> separate two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect
> by USB. Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was
> dead and then I found I could see the device but it didn't have any
> data. I saw the format was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my
> important data?
Attach the drive to another computer running a different operating
system - XP or Linux for example. If you can read the data, copy it off
either to that computer's hard drive or burn to CD/DVD-R. Then take the
drive back to your Vista machine and format it. Restore the data to it
from your backups.


Malke
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